By the middle of next month, new athletic field houses are expected to be ready for use at three Lancaster County schools.

Andrew Jackson, Buford and Indian Land high schools are each receiving a new field house that will store football, track, soccer, baseball and softball equipment. Athletes will have lockers and coaches will have space for meetings.

Work began on the 3,600-square-foot buildings in the spring and should be finished by Sept. 15, said David Small, who's overseeing the project for the district.

A Lancaster man on his way to meet his girlfriend was killed in a hit-and-run crash on Wednesday.

John Haver, 68, 177 Old Dixie Road, died of head trauma, said Lancaster County Chief Deputy Coroner Karla Knight.

“He was on his way to meet his girlfriend for ice cream,” at Bubba’s Dairy Bar and Grill near the intersection of S.C. 903 and U.S. 521 Bypass where the crash happened, Knight said. The grill is less than a mile from Haver’s home.

Authorities have issued a warrant for a suspect charged in a fatal hit-and-run at the outskirts of Lancaster on Wednesday.

Marqevius Deandre Hood, 26, 408 Fairfield St., is charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death, said Sid Gaulden, spokesman for the S.C. Department of Public Safety. The S.C. Highway Patrol, which is investigating the crash, is part of the Department of Public Safety.

After almost a year of trying to fix the problem, it appears the Lancaster County Water and Sewer District has lowered the level of a contaminate in the county’s drinking water.

The area’s drinking water has had a higher than normal level of trihalomethanes since last year. Trihalomethanes are created when chlorine mixes with organic material, such as decaying leaves and algae, in the water pulled from the Catawba River, where Lancaster gets its water supply.

Building on last year’s sold-out event, “An Evening in Paris,” Learning Institute for Tomorrow (LIFT) will hold its annual fundraiser at 6 p.m. Sept. 6 in the Bradley Arts & Science building at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.

This year’s event will have an Italian theme. The dcor of “An Evening in Italy” will give guests the feeling of strolling around an Italian piazza in Venice, Capri and other cities, while an Andre Bochelli DVD plays in the background.